Weekly Digital Assets Infrastructure Brief: Week 24-2026
14 signals across 9 jurisdictions: Hong Kong's HKMC prices a HK$12 billion inaugural public digital bond, the largest digital bond issuance globally to date; BIS Project Agora validates atomic settlement of tokenised central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits across eight central banks and advances to real-value testing; the ECB publishes a roadmap to extend T2 settlement hours toward 24/7 in support of Pontes and the digital euro; Zerohash secures the first EMI licence granted to a MiCAR-authorised firm; the SFC issues issuer guidance ahead of Hong Kong's 16 November 2026 uncertificated securities market launch; Visa and Brale test privacy-enabled stablecoin settlement on Canton; BitGo unveils a modular digital-asset operating model for banks; Copper ME wins ADGM in-principle approval; Rain and Standard Chartered establish banking infrastructure across Bahrain and the UAE; KB Financial completes a won-stablecoin offline-payments pilot in Korea; the RBA publishes CBDC focus-group findings; and AirAsia MOVE, the Solana Foundation and Intebix sign an LOI to bring Kazakhstan's tenge stablecoin onto Solana.